I have information that in '53, the GTW made their herald level and added the maple leaf, which would be a year before the CN made their maple leaf herald level. Do I have the right dates here? Also,

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List, Some or all of you may be familiar with the above mentioned book title. It's been reviewed by Bill Jewett in the Operations-Industry SIG newsletter, the "Dispatchers Office". Well, I received

Terd, I've CC:ed this back to the group as someone else may find the data interesting...I think John indicated that the H31a was, as you suggested earlier, a "test" car. Then, they made some changes

Not a significant difference, but actually there were 501. H-31A, #249990 (220842-221341 were classed H-31B) was built in early 1942 (probably a proof-of-concept, like gon #343432 and box car

I had a John Teichmoeller moment the other day. Ever since getting his book on PRR steel hoppers, I've been ignoring the foreground of published photos (especially those diesels) and looking at car

Train Miniature had a NH wood box car (forty feet instead of 36 feet) with a slogan like "New England's Vacationland" on the door. The car was in the pre-'41 pre-script scheme. I would guess they

Al - On the Life-like model, 1.24 inches, measured with a caliper. 1.22 if you take the tie down lugs into account. - John

Al, my Sunshine measures about 8'8" vs 9'2" for the P2K model. Margin of error +/- 2" due to measuring with a ruler. Timothy O'Connor <timoconnor@...> Marlborough, Massachusetts

OK, so now I'm getting familiar with the gons. Turns out both Erie and Nickel Plate used them for containers. Unfortunately, the Sunshine version is much too narrow (8'10" vs 9'6" for the

John, regarding the date when the WM ball herald was adopted, there's a photo of a WM mill gondola (WM 50701) in the 1940 CBCyc which was delivered with the ball herald in 3-37. Richard H.

I've just uploaded two JPEG images of an in-process tank kitbash built from Mark Fedderson's DuPont tank car article, to the <Files> section of the group's web site. It's from my distressingly large

There is a c. 1919 photo of a USRA-like WM hopper in one of the Nimke Rutland books, with no herald. The ball herald was being used by the late '30's. Can anyone pin down the date it was adopted a

In the Aug. '49 Model Railroader, the review of a Utah Scale Models Col 65 foot mill gon said "The sides are sprayed authentic Western Maryland white and lettered in red. The lettering

Ted Culotta said: Ted is exactly right about Feddersen's article. Can't comment on the Munson piece, as I really don't speak "hopper." Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

If I had caught up with my email before posting, I would have seen this. Shawn's description is the Feddersen article (so I was wrong... it's a 104 instead of a 105 :-) )

For all of you tank car kitbashing masochists, there was a great article in Mainline about 15 years ago by Mark Feddersen about how to kitbash the Athearn chemical tank car into an accurate prototype

Tony Thompson wrote: I understand your point, Tony, and I too feel that the Athearn kit is a crude attempt at an ICC-105 pressure car. But if I'm interpreting Richard correctly(and who knows, I may